...ge intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan boo... ...ionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan book. For mo... ...nning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan Zittrain. All rights reserved. Subject to the exception immediat... ... of rules (either coded for a particular operating system, or respecting the protocols of the Internet). Both overwhelmed their respective proprietary... ...ve network. It is instead one of sterile appliances tethered to a network of control. These appliances take the innovations already created by Interne... ... Windows for Mac. Rather, they pose a fundamental dilemma: as long as people control the code that runs on their machines, they can make mistakes and ... ...n order to write new soft- ware. 13 It also lays the groundwork for the easy transmission of code from an inventor to a wider audience: instead of pas... ...t AT&T’s discretion and pace. Because AT&T lost, others’ experiments in data transmission could move forward. The physi- cal layer had become generati... ...i- ties that would form the backbone of the new network, helping to make the protocols they developed on paper testable in a real-world environment. T...

...itting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...